BSA webinar – In detail: Boarding sector update for Wales

• Date: June 20, 2022
• Time: 12:00 – 13:00
• Cost: Full Member – £60 / Additional Full Member – £15,  Affiliate Member – £90 / Additional Affiliate Member – £20, Non-member – £120
• Audience: Head/Principal, Deputy Head/Vice-Principal, Head of Boarding, Senior Boarding Practitioners.
• Platform: Zoom (online)

This webinar will provide an in-depth focus on boarding in your area. This will go over market data on schools, boarders and boarding staff in your region with contextual comparison against the global market. This webinar will also highlight key member issues from your region to cultivate conversation and consideration in your school.

Training topics will include:

• Key issues relating to boarding in your region
• Market data relating to boarding in your region.

Learning outcomes:

• Greater knowledge about boarding in your specific region
• Greater knowledge about the current market, and the position of your region within the global market.

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Speakers: Robin Fletcher, Chief Executive, BSA and BSA Group

Robin Fletcher, MBA, MPhil, is CEO of BSA Group, comprising the BSA (Boarding Schools’ Association), Sacpa (Safeguarding and Child Protection Association) and BAISIS (British Association of Independent Schools with International Students). Robin was a journalist, editor and communications director before joining BSA in 2014.

As BSA CEO, Robin is a member of the Department for Education’s Systems Partnership Oversight Board. Outside BSA, he is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an Honorary Fellow of Cardiff Metropolitan University, a Governor of Rugby School, President of the Rugbeian Society and a non-executive director of the national trade body Make UK. He lives in Bath in south west England and has two daughters, two stepdaughters, and two stepsons.

Dale Wilkins, Director of Safeguarding, Professional Development and Accreditation

Dale joined the BSA during Summer 2017 with responsibility for safeguarding and standards. In July 2019 he also assumed responsibility for the BSA’s accredited training programme. Dale leads on all safeguarding and inspection matters for the BSA, including managing the Commitment to Care Charter, the Annual Safeguarding conference, and the Safeguarding Forum. He has also developed a process of BSA Accreditation for our overseas members.

For 31 years Dale was a boarding practitioner. After boarding positions at Norwich School and Tettenhall College, Dale became a Housemaster at Old Swinford Hospital in 1992, and was promoted to Deputy Head in 2007, and subsequently also DSL. He has also been a multi-agency trainer for the Dudley Safeguarding Children’s Board and has been closely involved in inspection in state and independent boarding since 2002. Dale had previously been a BSA course tutor since 1998 and developed the BSA Self-Assessment Toolkit.

Welsh forum Chair